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Do you also forbid giving TikTok access to your brain? That’s the main issue here.
by rcme 4y ago
Do you also forbid giving TikTok access to your brain? That’s the main issue here.
- randombits0 4y agoDang, do you know how bad you sound? TikTok may be crack cocaine but it’s just media, protected expression, and beyond consideration for censorship. You let these bastards turn off this app and they will come back and do it again and again. Mind cancer! For the good of national security! Save the children! What a bunch of rubbish. Go back to school! Wait, you’re screwed there too!
- rcme 4y agoIs your claim that all media is perfectly fungible so you don’t need to care about its content or origin and that media has no impact on your beliefs and psyche? That doesn’t sound reasonable to me.
- randombits0 4y agoNo, I’m saying folks can choose what media they want. Are you suggesting that some media is so evil its availability shouldn’t be tolerated? Yeah, no.
- rcme 4y agoNo, I'm not claiming that media is so evil it can't be tolerated. I'm claiming that there is a national security risk to letting an adversary control the information flow to the population. This has nothing to do with the contents of the media itself.
- randombits0 4y agoSo run back to Facebook. Or Instagram. Or YouTube. Or Telegram. Or Discord. Or Reddit. Or …
- UncleMeat 4y agoObviously that isn't the main issue here, since disabling TikTok on UT wifi does very little to stop people from actually using it.
- rcme 4y agoSo then what does disabling it accomplish?
- UncleMeat 4y agoPractically, nothing. It achieves geopolitical dick wagging, I guess. TikTok isn't a threat to networks. If it is any threat, it is a threat to users (and to a much lesser extent, to device managers). Disabling it on various networks is meaningless.